Photos for yesterday

The painting! (Aren't we artistic!?)

The Victoria Clock Tower. Stopped at 12:51... On February 22nd 2011.

Check out the finial

Former Cranmer Bridge Club (being turned into a photography studio)

Former Teachers' Training College. We think(!) that it was a restaurant back in 1987. A very posh restaurant. So posh that when we wandered in (looking for food again) they hid us away in the corner. D.C. saw the grand piano and thought it was a coffin.

A bright bit of colour.

An artwork outside the Art Gallery. Check out the places.

Remember how the gallery was used as the base for the Civil Defence during the emergency? It's now closed because it's unsafe.

Artwork outside the Christchurch City Council. Does this mean they're a slimey lot or just very flexible?

Worcester Chambers, built initally for Digby's Commercial College - a secretarial school.

He's been re-potted.

Check out the cracks!

I think the left was a former City Council building too. The right, Rydges, may well be the only hotel left standing from before the quake, once everything settles down. They think that the reason why it stood up so well is because of its curved shape. However some of the supporting beams beneath had gone and it was being supported by giant jacks.

Remember the statue of Robert Falcon Scott lying forlornly in the museum? This is where he should be.

They're reinstating the tram tracks! (And the guy in the middle was good enough to pose for me. I thanked him with a thumbs up.)

Kate Sheppard National Memorial. It's in the shadow of that propped up building by Rydges - and Rydges itself, so this is as close as we could get.

Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings. The ones that started out as wood before being made out of earthquake-prone stone. I think Carl said it was a World Heritage Site.

Hebe.

You wouldn't thing that to the right of this scene is the Town Hall, with its upheaved (is that a word?) steps.

Victoria Square was used initially by Maori and then Pakeha (white New Zealanders for those overseas) as a trading and market area. This carving tells the Maori story.

Historic and pretty willow. (A bird had dirtied the plaque and I read it as "Weeping Widow".)

How'd you like to abseil from the top floor of that!? Forsythe Barr building.

Scaffolding stairs. The only way into the Forsythe Barr building now.

What remains of the Edmonds (of baking powder fame) Band Rotunda. The rest has been deconstructed until they decide what to do with it.

Site of the tragic PGC (Pyne Gould Corporation) collapse.

Felix (8) and Lukas (6) playing with the carpark